The Rosewood Report describes how white mobs reign as a terror against African Americans during the period 1917 to 1923. Singleton’s film, Rosewood displayed the hostility, misconceptions, and stereotypes against African Americans. In the film a white female Fannie Taylor falsely accused a black man of raping her after her secret lover beat her. After, she made the accusations the white mob went to a random black man house and brutally beat him. Ellis a man who knew Fannie Taylor for several years didn’t believe her, but he did not speak up either and say otherwise until the end of the film. That’s where the attacks and many deaths of African Americans started. I felt like if Ellis would have spoken up and said Fannie Taylor was lying deaths that occurred would have not happen. For instance, the death of Ms. Sarah an African American older woman who help raise many of the men in the white mob. Also, these actions that took place made me frustrated and angry with Ellis personally. It made me ask several questions on why every black person or man in sight was shot at, lynched, beat, o...
...es such as Georgia to deny blacks their civil rights as well as federal protection. Wexler reveals the shameful standards of the investigation which was simply a cover up from beginning to end. There is also some feeling with regards to the racism and hatred of the white townspeople who almost thought that the blacks actually deserved their terrible fate.
The hypocrisy and double standard that allowed whites to bring harm to blacks without fear of any repercussions had existed for years before the murder Tyson wrote about occurred in May of 1970 (Tyson 2004, 1). Lynching of black men was common place in the south as Billie Holiday sang her song “Strange Fruit” and the eyes of justice looked the other way. On the other side of the coin, justice was brought swiftly to those blacks who stepped out of line and brought harm to the white race. Take for instance Nate Turner, the slave who led a rebellion against whites. Even the Teel’s brought their own form of justice to Henry Marrow because he “said something” to one of their white wives (1).
“Their struggle has been a struggle that every black person went through, one that grew from the seeds of slavery and took hold in a post-civil war America, when blacks gained their freedom (Shadow Boxing - The Journey of the African-American Boxer (Great Documentary), 2012).” It was interesting to learn from the movie that “reconstruction is a defining moment in African-American history in which blacks gained political rights in the south. With these rights, whites saw the blacks gain social equality. Fearing what they saw, whites brought a quick end to reconstruction. (Shadow Boxing - The Journey of the African-American Boxer (Great Documentary), 2012)." It would be interesting to interview people from the past to ask them why they think it 's okay to treat African Americans like that. It made me wonder what white people were thinking in the past. It brought tears to my eyes to learn that blacks quickly lost their new found freedom and lynching
...l being brutally murdered was not right but it upped the spirits of many African Americans (Simkin).
In Rosewood, the actual account of what happened was different from the story that was told to the public through this movie. A white woman named Fannie Taylor was married to a white man named James Taylor and they together lived right outside of Rosewood, Florida. Her husband, James, had gone to work that day, and Fannie was home alone. She chose to cheat on her husband with a white man who some believed worked for the Sea Board Airline Railroad; the same man who physically beat her as they finished having sexual relations that day. Her story to the courts and the people outside was that a black man came and “assaulted” her, both sexually and physically. As no one ever disputed the fact that this assault was done by a black man, the unanimity of the white community that this assault was in fact a racial assault against her—her story was never questioned. Although some blacks in the community knew as they were eyewitnesses to the man walking from the house, no one ever fought against Fannie...
The movie the 13th centralizes that African-Americans are often criminals or dangerous in the eyes of the law. Since the end of slavery black people has always been at a disadvantage here in America. The novel All American Boys tells a story about how a good black kid, Rashad, gets beat up by a cop and a white kid, Quinn, who goes to the same school and is the same age and grade as Rashad and is seen as this “All American Boy,” seen it and goes through about if it was right or not. Both the novel and the movie has something to do between the two races, white and black. There’s always something that happens to a black person that leads to controversy and news.
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, and the Scottsboro Trial the African-American community was degraded while the rest of society would not speak of any racial tensions because of their belief that they were contributing to their own communities. In The Help the African-American women of Jackson, Mississippi would take care of the white children, to a point where the children may even consider their “help” of a part of their family than their own parents, along with trying to take care of their own families. In To Kill a Mockingbird Tom Robinson is convicted of the rape of Mayella Ewell on the assumption that all black men are evil and can do no good. In the Scottsboro Trial, nine African-American teenagers
But the film actually made me recall a question that I always had: to what extent can we, as somewhere who are not involved in the events, criticize people, especially the wrongdoers, who did partake in the history? As people from the 21st century, we know that slavery is unjust and horrible because we were raised in a society where love and peace were honored. When I questioned myself what would I do if I were Edwin Epps, Marry Epps, or William Ford, I began to question myself how much can I criticize them people when the cruelty was norm, and all those people did really was to follow the norm. Although it would be righteous and courageous to stand up for the blacks, not everyone is all courageous and willing to challenge the society. The film reminded me to have my own judgment and not to blindly follow what everyone else consider to be the norm. This film also made me wonder: when it is many years from now, how much of the social norm today would be considered to be cruel and
They would terrorize and kill innocent people for any little thing that they would do. A group of 3 men, who were Ida’s friends, opened up a grocery store. It was a terrible mistake because they opened it up across a white owned grocery store. The white men had a “monopoly” in the area and were outraged by the 3 men because they were taking some of their sales. In order to drive them away they started a mob and attempted to raid the store, but the three men fought back and were able to injure 3 white men. The three owners were were sent to jail but were never given a trial, this is because another mob had formed and invaded their jail cells and killed them (McBride). Ida quickly decided to write an article about the lynching and urged all blacks to leave Memphis or risk getting
In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne masterfully weaves many themes and character development to format the plot of this novel. The themes of The Scarlet Letter are carried out through symbolism and the four main characters: Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Pearl. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne hoped to show that although Hester and Dimmesdale sinned, they achieved the wisdom of self knowledge and inner growth through their suffering.
A small African-American boy sees his friend in the park, but can't spend time with him because they are not the same skin color. Maybe his parents did not want everyone in the town knowing that they were letting their child play with white folk, or he was afraid of what his parents would say if they were getting along, regardless of what the rest of the town thinks. Little did this boy know that he would soon be accused of a crime he never committed. This was the life of those with a different skin color in the 1930s. In To Kill a Mockingbird and the Scottsboro trials, racism not only affected those involved, but also the town of where it was held. It would even affect the chances of those accused, which led them to try escape from a penitentiary during this time.
Moderata Fonte’s Venetian ladies debated the worth of women while cavorting in their fictional garden in 1605; Tempel Anneke met her unhappy fate in the 1660s. The seemingly enlightened and forward-looking feminist attitudes articulated in Fonte's text were absent from the Brunswick courtroom where the allegations against Tempel Anneke eventually brought about her death. The two accounts illustrate the differences in the attitudes towards women between European states during the 17th century. The differences are technically religiously based, however, they deal with the differences of the specific regional factors of the areas discussed. The differences explain why the attitudes of Fonte’s ladies and the persecutors of Tempel coexisted in roughly the same era. Fonte's ladies are Italian Catholics, and Anna's neighbors are German Protestants, therefore, the ideals of women are varied based on religious experience. Additionally, the theory of reason of state that came about with the consolidation of authority consisted of centralization and secularism that subordinated the social role ...
In the rosewood and racial violence in January 1923 lynching was common in the u’s but in the south of the united states two years before representative l.c. dyer of the Missouri introduced a bill in the house of representatives to make lynching federal crime. Dyer acted out as a voice for blacks the bill passed the house but not the south they prevented a vote resulting in the measure’s leaving the state to deal with the lynching. Although lynching had died down by sixty-four in 1921, 1922 fifty-seven years ended and lynching had fifty-one victims that were black and six that were white. That something I don’t understand fifty-one black’s not to count the ones that were gunned down and I believe that most of them that died did not have anything to do with it the stuff they deserve was harsh.lynchings,shoutings,burning,and whatever else they was just harsh. In 1923 there were several murdered. The first week of January, rosewood was the center that became a riot, massacre, between the races causing a race war between the two.
...lot of the historical events that took place in the report in the movie. He could have made them a little more accurate but I feel like that would have taken away from the movie. It would have made it more historical instead of making it grab my attention as it did. After reading the article The Rosewood Massacre and watching the film Rosewood, I learned that blacks were very easily subject to racial prejudice. Whites were gullible and persuaded to do things no matter how wrong or what harm it could cause to others. I knew the justice system was unfair but it seemed as if they did not have one at all or justice was only for whites. The Rosewood Massacre time period was not one I would wish anyone to be a part of; it was horrible.
There were many inequalities in the history of African Americans, especially during the timeframe of this movie. It appears that those inequalities and injustices were observed by many. The debate team from Wiley College used those experiences and research to present their views in order to persuade others to see a different perspective through their eyes.